"We don't want people to have to focus on bits and bytes and feeds and speeds. We don't want people to have to go to multiple [systems] or live with a device that's not integrated."
This is like a car manufacturer saying "we don't want people to focus on horsepower or cylinder volumes or top speeds" Sheesh.
Not quite. Google "feed and speed" and see what comes up. They are terms from machining that involve configuring tooling to get a job done. If you want to turn or mill a piece of metal, you can't just throw it on a machine, hit a button, and everything just works. You need to know the proper feed rate and spindle speeds to use. These depend on several factors, including the material being machined, the type of cutting tool (carbide vs high speed steel), dimensions of the material and tooling. Cook is saying that Apple likes to hide all that from the user so they can just get the job done.
Not a rigorous proof, but here's my favorite explanation:
for any positive integer k, the binary representation of 2^k-1 consists of k 1's. If k is even, this is an even number of 1's lined up together. Since 3 is 11 in binary, you can divide 2^k-1 by 3 and get a quotient of the form 10101..01.
That episode of The Mechanical Universe certainly was engaging and interesting. But educational? It was a bit light on content. At the end of the episode, I'd come away entertained. But not so much educated.
You have to take it for what it is--a set of freshman physics lectures that give an introduction to the subject and some history. It's a very good general education course that would either prepare someone to study physics in depth or help with science literacy for a non-science major.
I discovered the Mechanical Universe on TV in the late 80s when I was about 13 years old. By watching it I gained a broad yet shallow knowledge of physics. I learned a lot about the conic sections, derivatives, kepler's laws, gravity, relativity, angular momentum, atomic physics, electromagnetism, and a bunch of other things. Seeing the animations of physics--and the animations of equations--made it really engaging.
Exactly, the donation is a ripoff! The hospital using the organs makes a treasure chest full of money....My point is, the donor should receive a fair amount of money, say, $100k per organ harvested. It's a capitalist world, and you have pay the supplier of your goods.
If the hospital had to pay for the organ, they'd turn around and charge the recipient, making an already horrible financial situation even worse.
It seems the highly 'exceptional' people in Jeff Bezos' circle have re-invented Taylorism, which is an abiding disregard for the well-being of workers. This indifference and disregard is called "scientific". Efficiency is something to be squeezed out of people second by second, the long-term effects be damned.
I came in here to mention Taylorism, but you beat me to it. There's a great episode of The Secret Life of Machines about the evolution of the modern office, and it goes into some depth about Taylor and the problems with scientific management.
Look! De Morgan's Theorem just let me reduce those 5 lines of code to 2.
So what? The 5 lines probably represent the set of logical questions that makes sense to a human. Once it's been manipulated by De Morgan's laws, the connection to the problem is lost. (If it was maintained, you wouldn't have needed De Morgan to optimise them.) You have fewer logic operations, but less legible code.
What a silly argument. Optimize the code and use a comment to explain what's happening.
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More like one adapter. iPads have a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The College Board, who make the AP tests among other things, allow a lot of different calculators--not just TI.
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/takingtheexam/exam-policies/calculator-policy
Why not use true random number generators and avoid the need for hashes and secret seeds?
I meant to check the "post anonymously" box on that. oops!
28 cores? That must fly. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!
Their own words:
"We don't want people to have to focus on bits and bytes and feeds and speeds. We don't want people to have to go to multiple [systems] or live with a device that's not integrated."
This is like a car manufacturer saying "we don't want people to focus on horsepower or cylinder volumes or top speeds" Sheesh.
Not quite. Google "feed and speed" and see what comes up. They are terms from machining that involve configuring tooling to get a job done. If you want to turn or mill a piece of metal, you can't just throw it on a machine, hit a button, and everything just works. You need to know the proper feed rate and spindle speeds to use. These depend on several factors, including the material being machined, the type of cutting tool (carbide vs high speed steel), dimensions of the material and tooling. Cook is saying that Apple likes to hide all that from the user so they can just get the job done.
Rather than explaining who he is, I'll point you to a comment from a previous story on Donald Knuth.
https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=35651&cid=3849091
Not a rigorous proof, but here's my favorite explanation:
for any positive integer k, the binary representation of 2^k-1 consists of k 1's. If k is even, this is an even number of 1's lined up together. Since 3 is 11 in binary, you can divide 2^k-1 by 3 and get a quotient of the form 10101..01.
e.g. 2^10 = 1111111111=11(101010101)
Stupid git!
Here's a commercial for one from the 80's.
Tomy Chatbot Commercial
You can read the Official Lego guidelines for cleaning lego bricks. They say not to put them in the laundry machine or dishwasher.
mind you, pointed in the wrong direction, space is up, not sideways.
To get into orbit, you need more sideways speed than up speed. Look up Newton's Cannoball.
That episode of The Mechanical Universe certainly was engaging and interesting. But educational? It was a bit light on content. At the end of the episode, I'd come away entertained. But not so much educated.
You have to take it for what it is--a set of freshman physics lectures that give an introduction to the subject and some history. It's a very good general education course that would either prepare someone to study physics in depth or help with science literacy for a non-science major.
I discovered the Mechanical Universe on TV in the late 80s when I was about 13 years old. By watching it I gained a broad yet shallow knowledge of physics. I learned a lot about the conic sections, derivatives, kepler's laws, gravity, relativity, angular momentum, atomic physics, electromagnetism, and a bunch of other things. Seeing the animations of physics--and the animations of equations--made it really engaging.
I think that the number of pieces/supertanker trips required to move an iceberg would be intractably large.
Could you let us know where your lawn is, so we can steer clear?
Exactly, the donation is a ripoff! The hospital using the organs makes a treasure chest full of money....My point is, the donor should receive a fair amount of money, say, $100k per organ harvested. It's a capitalist world, and you have pay the supplier of your goods.
If the hospital had to pay for the organ, they'd turn around and charge the recipient, making an already horrible financial situation even worse.
I haven't had Spy Hunter on a computer since my Commodore 64 days.
Then we'll have to build the anti-anti-anti-drone drone!
It seems the highly 'exceptional' people in Jeff Bezos' circle have re-invented Taylorism, which is an abiding disregard for the well-being of workers. This indifference and disregard is called "scientific". Efficiency is something to be squeezed out of people second by second, the long-term effects be damned.
I came in here to mention Taylorism, but you beat me to it. There's a great episode of The Secret Life of Machines about the evolution of the modern office, and it goes into some depth about Taylor and the problems with scientific management.
YouTube video of that episode.
Dividing any other number than zero by zero is well defined as infinity or minus infinity.
We need a -1 Wrong mod for just this sort of post.
These people would do well to read up on Taylorism/Scientific Management, and how well it worked 100 years ago before they delve too deeply.
That might depend on how you define people. Nobody who takes themselves seriously is going to use an iPad as a phone in public.
If Andre the Giant were still alive, he could probably do it without it looking strange.
There used to be a troll named Subjunctive Sam. I miss him.
Look! De Morgan's Theorem just let me reduce those 5 lines of code to 2.
So what? The 5 lines probably represent the set of logical questions that makes sense to a human. Once it's been manipulated by De Morgan's laws, the connection to the problem is lost. (If it was maintained, you wouldn't have needed De Morgan to optimise them.) You have fewer logic operations, but less legible code.
What a silly argument. Optimize the code and use a comment to explain what's happening.
Or better yet, they go to PBS and do a reboot of 3-2-1 Contact! But who would play be the bloodhound gang?